PERFECT: Don Larsen’s Miraculous World Series Game and the Men Who Made It Happen – by Lew Paper

To provide a new outlook on an event over 50 years since it happened is no small task — and when it’s finished, it had better be pretty darn good. Almost perfect, some might say. Lew Paper takes on the task of Don Larsen’s perfect game in the 1956 World Series, what many consider to […]

Chasing the Dream – by Joe Torre with Tom Verducci

As the discussions raged about Joe Torre and Tom Verducci’s The Yankee Years, which came out earlier this year – and I reviewed here – only a few people made reference to this book, which the two put out in April of 1997. The contrasts between the two books are striking – as are the […]

This Bad Day in Yankees History – by Gabriel Schechter

I’ve been a fan of page-a-day calendars for some time; they’re almost as much a part of Christmas-time for me as overpriced Christmas trees, tacky sweaters and teams of high school students at the mall offering to wrap your gifts for a few bucks. I currently have two of these little marvels of daily dispensing […]

Rumor In Town – by Matt Dahlgren

Baseball is full of stories – many we know, but many more which go untold. One of those untold stories is that of Babe Dahlgren – the man who replaced Lou Gehrig at first base for the Yankees when he took himself out of the lineup – and who also had a career tarnished and […]

You Can Observe A Lot by Watching – by Yogi Berra

I’ll be the first to admit that I’m a big fan of Yogi Berra – both the ballplayer and the person, which is why I was excited to read his new book, You Can Observe A Lot by Watching. In this book, Berra draws on his 19 seasons in the Majors to focus on what […]

Living on the Black – by John Feinstein

Most of us have probably dreamt of being a ballplayer for a day. But what if you could be a ballplayer for a whole year? Of what if you could be two ballplayers? Now before you think I’m nuts – this is just what John Feinstein allows you to do with his new book Living […]